Pasting device.



J. E. MlTCHELL.

PASTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25. 1915.

Patenfed May 29, 1917.

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JOHN E. IVIITCHELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PASTING DEVICE.

Application filed March 25, 1916.

To all whom/2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. MITCHELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pasting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an automatic pasting device designed particularly for use in connection with the type of heel-building machine described and illustrated in a companion application, Serial No. 86,662, filed March 25th, 1916. In said machine an inclined table has mounted thereon a series of vertically-disposed magazines for containing stacks of lifts, and is provided with means for simultaneously ejecting the lowermost lift from each of the magazines. Located adjacent to the place of deposit of the lifts ejected from said magazines is the improved pasting device forming the subj ect-matter of the present invention, and beyond said pasting device, at the front of the machine, is a movable device carrying heel formers. After the pasted lifts are assembled in each heel-former to form a heel-blank the device is given a quarter turn to bring the heelformer into position opposite a heel-blank holder, and by operating the machine the heel-blank is forced into said holder. These holders are located at either side of the machine, and two heel-formers are employed, so that as each heel-former is in position to have the lifts assembled therein the other is opposite one or the other of said holders.

The general object of the present invention is to provide very simple means for facilitating the pasting of heel lifts and their assembly in a heel former. While the pasting is effected in a sense automatically the invention contemplates the manual control of the lift in being pasted and assembled. In operation, the invention enables the pasting to be effected substantially without causing any delay in the movements of the lifts as they are being assembled in the heel former.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a table having my improved pasting device applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrows; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on the line Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, rare.

Serial No. 86,663.

3-3 of Fig. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrows.

Referring now to the drawing, the numerals 1, 2, indicate side frame-members supporting on their upper ends a top or table 3 the upper face of which lies exposed. Toward its forward end this table is provided with a rectangular opening 4. Mounted in the upper ends of the side frame-members in suitable bearings 5 is a shaft 6 having on one end a pulley '7 by means of which it may be rotated by a belt (not shown) in the usual manner. Secured on cross-beams 8, 9, extending between the side frame-members 1 and 2 at their upper ends are bracket-arms 10, 11, respectively, which removably support at its opposite ends a tank 12 containing paste. Secured on the shaft 6 about midway of its length is a roller 13, the lower portion of which, as shown by Fig. 3, is submerged in the paste of the tank 12. The upper side of this roller is substantially flush with the upper surface of the table 3. The roller 13 is provided with, preferably, two annular grooves 14. The numerals 15 indicate two parallel bars which are secured at their opposite ends, as shown at 16, 17, at opposite ends of the rectangular opening 4: and pass through the annular grooves 14: of the pasting roller, the upper edges of the bars 15 being flush with the upper surface of the table 3 and substantially on a level with the upper side of the roller 13. The numeral 18 inclicates a heel-former of any preferred construction secured to the front of the table, and having an open side directed toward the table. The heel-former shown comprises two parallel bars 19 substantially in line with the bars 15 and forming the bottom of the heel-former, a back-plate 20 against which the lifts are assembled, and guidefingers 21 secured at opposite sides of the plate 20 and having their inner sides convering toward the back-plate 20 so as to properly position the lifts in forming the heel-blank.

In operation the lifts to be used in forming the heel-blanks will be piled upon the table 3. The first or bottom lift, which does not have to be pasted, is placed in the heelformer against the back-plate 20. The operator then takes the lifts, one at a time, and in the order in which they are to be assembled, and passes them by hand rapidly over the bars 15 which constitute a slideway, and

in this movement the roller 13, which is traveling in the same direction as the lift, will apply paste to the under side of the lift. Passing the lifts by hand in this way across the paster is possible because the space over the slideway is unobstructed. As the latter reaches the end of the bars 15 it is lifted on edge and pressed against the first lift in the heel-former and other lifts are manipulated in the same way until a heelblank of the desired height is formed. The heel-blank is then removed for subsequent operations, such as nailing, or flat-pressing, and the building of another heel-blank is proceeded with. It will, of course, be understood that my improved pasting device may be used in conjunction with any character of heel-forming device, and the one shown is merely for the purpose of illustrating the preferred manner of use of the invention, so far as having a heel-former in line with the pasting device is concerned. Also a single slide bar 15, or more than two of such bars could be used.

I claim:

1. In apparatus for pasting and assembling heel lifts, the combination of a table having an exposed supporting surface for the lifts, a heel former adjacent the edge of the table, said table having an opening there in, guiding means for supporting and guiding the heel-lifts across said opening, the space above said guiding means being unobstructed to enable the lifts to be moved by hand over said guiding means and into said heel-former, and means in the said opening for pasting the lifts as they pass toward said heel-former.

2. In apparatus for pasting and assembling heel-lifts, the combination of a table having an upper exposed supporting surface for the lifts, a heel former at substantially the level of the table and located near the front edge of the table, said table having, an

opening therein between said supporting surface and said heel former, guiding means for supporting and guiding the heel lifts across said opening, the space above said guiding means being unobstructed to enable the lifts to be moved by hand from said supporting surface toward and into said heelformer, and means in said opening for pasting the lifts as they pass toward said heel former.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN E. MITCHELL. Witnesses:

B. BUCKARD, E. E. BROADWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

